📊 VGC 2024 Regulation G metagame report
Today marks the official launch of Reg G, but we've known the rules for a month now and there've already been plenty of online tours. In this thread, I'll delve into usage stats for top Pokémon, sets and Restricted archetypes.
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Here are some of the top Pokémon so far in VGC Series 1. However, the format is just getting started and there's so much potential outside of this list!
📊 First look at VGC 2023 Regulation D
Data compiled from top-rated Showdown replays
▶️ 70 teams at 1400+ on ladder
🔽 Usage stats for individual Pokémon and cores in next tweet
📊 Top VGC 2023 Series 1 Pokémon in the last 2 weeks
Trends:
📈 Meowscarada, Amoonguss, Sylveon, Kingambit, Dondozo, Tatsugiri, Tyranitar, Azumarill, Volcarona
📉 Hydreigon, Murkrow, Maushold, Arcanine, Rotom-Wash
📊 Top VGC 2023 Series 1 Pokémon (updated!)
This new version should be a more accurate representation of both ladder and tournaments usage last week. It's kind of sorted by a mix of those stats. Check my RTs for specific data.
📊 VGC 2023 Series 2 usage stats update
Some big tournaments took place last week, so we have another fresh sample of over 200 top teams
Full teams:
📈 Great Tusk has seen the most notable usage increase
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 First VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats 🆕
131 top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours up to last Sunday
Check out all the teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
Incineroar is back at
#1
, while Raging Bolt, Latias and Archaludon make a strong debut
Happy New Year! 🥂
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats update
Over 3⃣0⃣0⃣ top teams from the 9 biggest Limitless tours last week
Check out all the teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Series 2 metagame report
It's Series 2⃣ time! Although it hasn't officially started, people have been playing with the new rules for weeks. Here are some usage stats of 250+ top teams in the 10 largest Limitless tours.
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 Tera Types usage stats 📊
Total and individual data collected from over 380 open team lists / pastes of the top players in tournaments held up to January 3rd. Hope it's a useful infographic!
The fear of powder moves is real 🍄
Will trends change after San Diego Regionals?
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation G usage stats update
110 top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours last week ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 4 teams
Amoonguss, Urshifu-R, Terapagos and Koraidon are on the rise, while Groudon plummets
📊 Portland Regionals top 12 most used Pokémon in Day 1 / Day 2
Chien Pao and Dragonite have been very successful, while Incineroar has dropped some spots in D2
📊 Europe International Championships (EUIC) metagame report
Top 128 teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats update
Over 3⃣0⃣0⃣ top teams from the 12 biggest Limitless + Battlefy tours last week
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Finalist teams
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 First look at VGC24 Regulation G usage stats
77 top teams from the 5 biggest Limitless tours in the first half of April ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 4 teams
Groudon and both Calyrex lead the Restricted rank from the start
📊 Pokémon to watch out for at
#PokemonWorlds
@PokemonShowdown
usage trends usually show top players' preferences. Will them predict some popular picks coming into Worlds?
First let's take a look at some Pokémon with increased usage in high ladder compared to lower ladder
📊 Dortmund Regionals top 12 most used Pokémon in Day 1 / Day 2
This is the biggest turn of events for a Day 2 in a while:
▶️ Flutter Mane
#3
below 50%
▶️ Ogerpon-W
#1
over 60%
▶️ Urshifu-S
#2
over 50%, Urshifu-R out of top 12
▶️ Raging Bolt +15%, over 40%
▶️ Gholdengo reappears
📊 Worlds Day 2 metagame report [Reg D]
All teams:
Individual Pokémon usage stats 👇
1⃣ Full Day 2 (113 players)
2⃣ Positive record (53 X-3 players)
3⃣ Top Cut (26 players)
🔝 Best success rate: Urshifu-Rapid-Strike, Chien-Pao, Amoonguss, Baxcalibur
📊 Liverpool Regionals metagame report [Reg F]
166 teams from Day 1 players at X-3 + Day 2
Top 256 teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 8 teams
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 Peoria Regionals metagame report (first Regulation E major event)
Top 128 teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 First VGC 2023 Regulation E usage stats
Over 400 top teams from the 15 biggest Limitless tours in the last two weeks
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
100 top teams from the 4 biggest Limitless tours so far (60+ players)
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
With Portland Regionals this weekend, let's recap some early Regulation F usage stats before jumping to official events data 📊
1⃣ Stats from the 7 biggest Limitless tours so far this year (181 top teams)
📊 Top VGC 2023 Series 1 Pokémon in tournaments in the last week of 2022
From now on I'm able to provide detailed usage stats! This data gather top teams from the following online tournaments:
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation G usage stats update
134 top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours in the last few days ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 4 teams
Miraidon and Lunala rise in usage, while Calyrex-Ice is quite successful
📊 Charlotte Regionals top 12 most used Pokémon in Day 1 / Day 2
Some of the most successful Pokémon include Tornadus, both Urshifu, Amoonguss and Kingambit
This is the largest
#PlayPokemon
VGC event ever!
📊🔝 Especially successful Pokémon
These Pokémon are having a higher usage among top-placing teams, that is, you may see more of them the higher you look in tournament standings
Could this reflect what's to come at Worlds?
Check the stats in the thread below for reference 👇
📊 Utrecht Special Event top 12 most used Pokémon in Day 1 / Day 2
Mind-blowing turnaround in Day 2:
🔺 Incineroar
#1
🔺 Raging Bolt
#2
over 50%
🔺 Landorus and Rillaboom tied with Ogerpon-W at
#3
🔻 Flutter Mane
#6
at 40%
🔻 Tornadus at 10%
🔻 Amoonguss misses top 12
Korean Trainers Cup top 4 has been canceled as all players are disqualified. They all agreed to use Metronome teams as a protest against TPC and Pokémon Korea for the deficiencies of Asian circuits. Their actions are considered inappropriate and offensive.
#APACPlaysPokemon
📊 Lille Regionals metagame report
Top 256 teams: (only top 128 in the following data)
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 Charlotte Regionals metagame report [Reg F]
207 teams from Day 1 players at X-3 + Day 2
Top 256 teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 8 teams
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 Quick VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats update
99 top teams from the 4 biggest Limitless tours earlier this week ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Top 4 teams
Great rises for Farigiraf, Rillaboom and Gouging Fire. Combined, both Urshifu forms exceed 60%!
💥 Great Tusk + Iron Bundle have become one of the strongest archetypes!
🔙 Gholdengo is back at full power
📈 Other successful Pokémon on the rise include Talonflame and Maushold
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
Over 3⃣0⃣0⃣ top teams from the 16 biggest Limitless tours in the last two weeks (50+ players)
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 VGC 2023 Series 1 usage stats (post-San Diego)
Amoonguss is now sitting at the top while Pelipper/Palafin teams are becoming popular. Will they continue to dominate the remaining weeks of the metagame?
Next stop: Liverpool, then Series 2!
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
Top teams from the 4 biggest Limitless tours last week:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation E usage stats update
168 top teams from the 8 biggest (70+ players) Limitless tours in the last two weeks
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
Good news! Following yesterday's Pokémon HOME update, I can now fetch real-time usage stats for Scarlet & Violet BS Ranked Battles. It's time to get back to my Discord bot project 👀
These are the current top 100 Pokémon in VGC, just updated half an hour ago
📊 Pokémon to watch out for in September 📊
@PokemonShowdown
August metagame report [Reg D]
1⃣📈 Rising usage (vs July)
2⃣🔝 Top ladder (vs low ladder)
3⃣📊 August stats (1500+)
📊 Knoxville Regionals top 12 most used Pokémon in Day 1 / Day 2
Ogerpon-Wellspring, Urshifu-Single-Strike, Raging Bolt and Landorus sweeping into Day 2. Urshifu-Rapid-Strike (once again) and Rillaboom falling off the top 12.
📊 Last week's Regionals combined metagame report
Top 64 Malmö teams:
Top 128 Hartford teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
Here's a little sneak peek at the new tool I'm working on to display usage stats for Tera Types and Tera Blast. It's almost finished, so look forward to the first report next week, hopefully including Knoxville and Bochum Regionals!
Let me know your thoughts 😀
📊 Toronto Regionals metagame report
Top 256 teams: (only top 128 in the following data)
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats update
241 top teams from the 10 biggest Limitless tours last week ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Finalist teams
Landorus rises, Ogerpon-Wellspring falls in usage
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation F usage stats update
99 top teams from the 5 biggest Limitless tours last week ()
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Top 4 teams
Ogerpon-Hearthflame and Roaring Moon rise, being quite successful
📊 Pokémon to watch out for in March 📊
@PokemonShowdown
February metagame report
1⃣📈 Rising usage (vs January)
2⃣🔝 Top ladder (vs low ladder)
3⃣📊 February stats (1500+)
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
89 top teams from the 5 biggest Limitless tours last week
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
Top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours so far this month +
@VGCVictoryRoad
to Yokohama
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 Europe International Championships / EUIC metagame report [Reg F]
242 teams from Day 1 players at X-3 + Day 2
Top 256 teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 8 teams
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation C usage stats update
Top teams from the biggest tournaments in the 2nd half of April: Lily of the Valley & Victory Road Challenges
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 Metagame report of the first 2024 season official events [Reg D]
Check out all the teams:
1⃣ Pittsburgh Regionals Top 128
2⃣ Barcelona Special Event Top 128
3⃣ Combined Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats
🔽 Combined team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
145 top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours last week
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 Pokémon to watch out for in May 📊
@PokemonShowdown
April metagame report
1⃣📈 Rising usage (vs March)
2⃣🔝 Top ladder (vs low ladder)
3⃣📊 April stats (1500+)
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If you like this account you are in luck because the best is yet to come. The official VGC season is about to begin and I'm working to provide you with as many tools as possible 😀
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
120 top teams from the 7 biggest Limitless tours last week (50+ players)
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores in next tweet
📊 Gdańsk + Brisbane Regionals combined metagame report
Check out all the teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2023 Regulation D usage stats update
Over 100 top teams from the 6 biggest Limitless tours last week
Check out all the teams:
▶️ Pokémon & Tera Types usage stats here
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 Knoxville + Melbourne Regionals combined metagame report [Reg F]
175 teams from Day 1 players at X-3 + Day 2
More teams:
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats and trend
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 8 teams
🔽 Team compositions and cores below
📊 VGC 2024 Regulation G usage stats update
93 teams from X-3 players in the 2 huge tours held last weekend
@SchoolVgc
(358 players):
@VGCVictoryRoad
(260 players):
1⃣ Pokémon usage stats
2⃣ Tera Types usage stats
3⃣ Top 8 teams
▶️ Urshifu-* (both forms) is the most used Pokémon in this sample, dethroning Flutter Mane. As a duo, they appear in half of the teams!
Most common compositions include cores like:
▶️ Tornadus + Chien-Pao + Dragonite (TW offense)
▶️ Heatran + Rillaboom / Amoonguss (balanced)
THE archetype is so popular and well established that it completely overshadows all others in this data!
Explore the tournaments, teams and open sheets: